[TheMercenary]

My experience has been that the systems are not compatible.

Let me give you a broad example. During many years in the military I had the pleasure of doing a few US/UK exchanges. The ability to get things done in the UK military was amazing, logical, easy. Sgt Chappy just calls up his bud over in mainland UK and things happen. In the US we have layers and layers of systems that we have to go through to get the same things done. Why? Because it is HUGE. We have more tanks at one post in Germany than all of the tanks in the UK. Our heath care system is entrenched in years of doing things a certain way. We can't do anything on the cheap here, nothing. To many hands in the pot. To many special interest groups with to much to lose. And just like in the UK military things are much easier to do when the layers are not there to get in the way of change. Costs are everything. How much tax do you guys pay to maintain your health care system? Our tax system is not set up the same way. We have to change much to fix our health care system. I am not sure that our system of how we lobby in Congress lends it self to the change we would need to make to fix health care, and so far ALL of the political electorees have refused to change that. There are so many pieces.